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From Encore Fellow to Nonprofit CEO
Linda Lazor worked for more than 30 years in the tech industry. In 2014, she became an Encore Fellow at Partners in School Innovation. At the end of her fellowship, she accepted an offer to work there full time. In 2018, she became CEO of the Silicon Valley Social...
Can older tutors complement a near-peer model? A national nonprofit says yes
Many nonprofits have long relied on “near-peer” tutors and mentors -- youth and young adults who provide support to others relatively close in age, think college students as tutors for high school ones. They’re often plentiful, able to connect to the young people they...
Homesharing across generations creates an unlikely friendship and lifelong gift
Amy was 53 years old. Her oldest daughter was away at college, and she and her husband had just begun paying for her to rent an apartment off-campus with some friends. And a room in their home in Piedmont, California was sitting vacant.“Maybe we could find...
These nonprofits seek encore talent now
Looking for great opportunities to kickstart your encore? Three fantastic organizations have openings that could be perfect for experienced people looking for a new challenge in the not-for-profit world. Want to work in city hall? Cities of Service Seeks...
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2020 Election: The Candidates’ National Service Plans
One presidential hopeful has a service proposal to unite generations I’ve been studying the candidates running for president, searching for ideas they have to bring us together as a nation. As a former board member of the federal Corporation for National and...
To Help More Young People, These Nonprofits Learned to Tap the Talent of Older Ones
How can nonprofits tap a new and growing source of talent -- people over 50 -- to improve the lives of the children and youth they serve? To help answer the question, nine youth-serving nonprofits -- all members of the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities --...
From Encore Fellow to Full-time Leader at the Girl Scouts
For the last 15 years of her midlife career, Francesca Vollaro was an executive in the global relocation field. She managed teams providing Fortune 500 companies with full-service global relocation programs for their employees and specialized in opening new divisions...
Giving
Five p.m. on a Tuesday, mid-winter. I’m sitting in the basement of St. Cyril’s Macedonian Orthodox Church in Regent Park in downtown Toronto. Teenagers drift in – by turns chatty, solemn, effusive, shy. Quickly they shed their coats to colonize the bare beat-up tables...
THEN: Homeless, Addicted & Convicted…NOW: Time’s “100 Most Influential People”
Time Magazine’s 2019 “100 Most Influential People” List includes Lady Gaga, Donald Trump, Michelle Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Dwayne Johnson. And it also includes Desmond Meade. In 2005, Desmond Meade had three strikes against him. He was homeless. He was a drug addict....